AccelStor: NeoSapphire Entry-Level 1U All-Flash Arrays

AccelStor, Inc. announces its entry-level all-flash array lineup, the NeoSaphire 3405 1U rackmount flash appliance with 5TB usable capacity featuring 360K sustained IO/s performance, the NeoSapphire 3401 1U rack-mount flash appliance with 1TB capacity featuring price-performance ratio and 10GbE SFP+ connectivity, and the NeoSapphire 3501 1U rackmount flash appliance with affordable sustained IO/s and IB FDR QSFP connectivity.

These three compact yet high IO/s models complete the NeoSapphire series for budget-sensitive use cases and I/O-intensive applications. All NeoSapphire models are powered by FlexiRemap flas h management technology, offering best-in-class performance and automatic data reconstruction for peace of mind.

Affordable high performance
The entry-level NeoSapphire 1U models aim at addressing the storage performance bottlenecks limiting business applications at all tiers with industry leading price-performance ratios. NeoSapphire 3405 provides a networked storage solution with 5TB usable capacity at just $0.13 per IO/s for I/O-constrained business applications whether it is accelerating front-end response, database speed, or tiered caching. For even lower cost of entry, NeoSapphire 3501 offers the same 360,000 sustained IO/s in a 1TB usable capacity for high-performance computing with IB connectivity. Additionally, the 1TB NeoSapphire 3401 offers a high value 300,000 IO/s at leading price-performance ratio of $0.08 per IO/s. With NeoSapphire 3401 starting from $22,900, NeoSapphire 3501 starting from $26,900, and NeoSapphire 3405 starting from $46,900, AccelStor is breaking the barriers of entry to high-performance all-flash storage.

Sustained IO/s for real-world performance
The company always uses 4KB random write performance as our IO/s testing standard, a much stricter requirement than peak IO/s figures. Furthermore, NeoSapphire 3405, NeoSapphire 3401 and NeoSapphire 3501 all pass stress tests of more than 48 hours for sustained performance and reliability, in order to meet the rigorous requirements of real-world storage applications.

Hot-swappable SSDs with automatic data reconstruction
The NeoSapphire series are powered by FlexRemap technology, offering a comparable protection level to RAID-5 without the performance penalty, and incorporate storage redundancy with automatic data reconstruction upon drive replacement. For ease of maintenance, SSDs are hot swappable and front-accessible. The data will be transparently recreated when drives are replaced, keeping the system running smoothly with no downtime.

“Today’s most critical business applications are no longer CPU-constrained but are limited by storage performance,” said Weafon Tsao, Ph.D. and VP, R&D. “AccelStor understands that storage acceleration can benefit businesses at all tiers so we’re relea sing 3 models with industry-leading value to lower the cost of entry for all-flash performance.“

Testing samples of all models are available for qualified customers, with availability as follows:
NeoSapphire 3401 available
NeoSapphire 3501 – October 26, 2015
NeoSapphire 3405 – November 9, 2015